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SABCA and Borsight join forces for major US F-16 maintenance contract

Jun 2019

Paris, June 17. The Belgian SABCA Group and US-based Borsight Inc., two experienced players in the aerospace industry, have teamed up to respond to a call for F-16 Fighting Falcon depot-level maintenance and repair services issued by the United States Air Force (USAF) in Ogden Utah, USA. The complementarity and proven expertise of both companies will allow the team to offer the best value solution to the US government. The contract ceiling for this opportunity is valued at $900M.

Mar 2019

Press release – regulated information – inside information

Brussels (Belgium), 5 March 2019 – 8:30 (CET)

Société Anonyme Belge de Constructions Aéronautiques SA/NV (SABCA) announces that it was informed that Fokker Aerospace B.V. (Fokker) has sold its entire 43.57% shareholding in SABCA to Dassault Belgique Aviation SA (Dassault) for a total price of 7,5 million euro.

Mar 2019

Brussels, 01/03/2019. SABCA, a leading tier 1 aerospace industry supplier and DEME Offshore, a worldwide leader in solutions and services for the offshore energy market, have entered into a partnership for the development and deployment of Unmanned Vehicles to perform surveillance and inspection works in the offshore industry.

SABCA MAROC HOSTS THE BELGIAN ECONOMIC MISSION PRESIDED BY HRH PRINCESS ASTRID OF BELGIUM, REPRESENTATIVE OF HIS MAJESTY THE KING

Nov 2018

CASABLANCA, 26 November 2018. As part of the Belgian Economic Mission to Morocco, the SABCA Group is honoured to receive a visit fromHer Royal Highness Princess Astrid of Belgium,Representative of His Majesty the King, at its SABCA site in Casablanca

SABCA is open for space technology transfer

Nov 2018

Brussels - SABCA supports the launch of the ESA Space Solutions platform. It's a new initiative launched by the European Space Agency and Verhaert: ESA Space Solutions Belgium. To support the Belgian space ecosystem, they join forces for technology transfer and business incubation.

Oct 2018

The SAFIR consortium, a group of 13 public and private organisations, has been selected by Single European Sky ATM Research Joint Undertaking (SESAR JU) to demonstrate integrated Drone Traffic Management for a broad range of drone operations in Belgium. The goal of the SAFIR project is to contribute to the EU regulatory process for drones and drive forward the deployment of interoperable, harmonised and standardised drone services across Europe.

Inter hospital transport by drone becomes reality

Oct 2018

BRUSSELS/ANTWERP -Helicus Aero Initiative (HAI) is putting in place a system that is able to transport medical parcels by drones between hospitals and their laboratories/pharmacies. The project, named MEDRONA, was selected for funding by the federal government. Inter hospital test flights will take place during the second part of 2019 in Antwerp urban airspace.

SABCA Group presents at Air & Cosmos symposium dedicated to drones, November 24, 2017

Nov 2017

SABCA to launch a complete suite of services for the drone industry

Jun 2017

True to its long experience in managing maintenance, repair, modification, upgrade, testing and certification programs for aircraft and helicopter systems and equipment, SABCA takes the natural next step offering its expertise and infrastructure to the industry of remotely-piloted and unmanned aerial systems (RPAS and UAS), also known as “drones”.